And once again I passed by yet another herd of “happy” dairy cows, and once again I felt the disgust welling up inside of me. And yet I wondered: from whence came this super-strong and incredibly uncomfortable response? Yes, I knew full well that each & every one of the bovine individuals pictured was but […]
I ambled onward along The Way’s varied pathways until I finally reached the small town of Rouillac and the adorable church on its outskirts. Other than the exceptionally warm ambience, there wasn’t much remarkable about the sanctuary in general, and yet I was especially intrigued by yet another sighting of St. Anthony and his pig […]
After awhile I passed a tented fruit tree. It had been tented to keep out the birds, and yet as I walked past I heard an unusual rustling sound therein – a sound that turned out to be a woodpecker trapped inside its netting … :O How metaphoric – and indeed how tragic – that […]
I wasn’t often directly confronted with the horrific injustices (imprisoning & enslaving the innocent) and abject cruelties (mutilation, infanticide, sexual assault, and murder)* of the globe-wide animal agriculture industry on this Walk, and yet my Soul was deeply crushed every time I did so … “Our self-instilled self-importance as a species is based on a […]
I then came to a roadway underpass and paused briefly therein – to be inspired by some graffiti that had been left for me to find*, and to offer my own greater wisdom to be found by those who might follow … “As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of other sentient […]
It was at around this time that I saw something that was simultaneously intriguing and heartwarming; a place in the barbed wire fence running alongside the path where a few local sheep had obviously escaped their human-laden captivity … “You have just dined, and however discreetly the animals are kept in their mountainside paddocks or […]
I had blissfully forgotten that Pamplona is one of the world’s many hubs of culture-excused cruelty, and yet this Running of the Bulls swag-shop sadly reminded me of the same … 🙁 “Courage and grace are a formidable mixture, and the very last place you will see either is in a bullring … I went […]
“Oh, what vile violence we inflict upon the innocent! So much so that the decent are left to wonder: What could a cow (or a chicken or a pig or a turkey) have ever done to warrant the wrath of God Himself?” ~ inspired by Gary Yourofsky P.S. If you bow down to any celestial […]
If animals are awake enough to deserve air conditioners on their transport trucks, then they are also awake enough to never be put into transport trucks … “My own view is that our planet is being used as a penal colony, a lunatic asylum, and a dumping ground by a superior alien civilization; a place […]
“Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and the land and all its nonhuman residents. Indeed, a sincerely healthy community is a form that includes all the local things that are connected by the larger, ultimately mysterious form of the Creation. In speaking of Community, then, we are […]
It didn’t really matter where I saw animal abuse, and it didn’t really matter what kind of abuse I saw or which species was being afflicted. A mixture of rage and revulsion rose from within me every single time the same was witnessed, and I found myself repeatedly praying for a much kinder world, and […]
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